Fabio Massimo Castaldo is an Italian politician who has served in the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
since 2014.
On 15 November 2017 he was elected vice-president of the European Parliament to replace
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, becoming the youngest vice president in the history of the institution.
He was re-elected MEP in the
2019 EP election.
On 3 July 2019 he was re-elected Vice-President of the European Parliament, running as an independent with the support of over 40 MEPs belonging to various political groups, as the European delegation of the
Five Star Movement belonged to the technical grouping of the
Non-Inscrits. His election represents the second success of an independent following the 2009 election of
Edward McMillan-Scott.
[Was elected as MEP with the British Conservatives and sat with ECR. However successfully stood as an independent candidate against ECR's official candidate and was expelled. Although he joined the Liberal Democrats in the UK, he sat as a Non-attached Member in the European Parliament.]
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
MEPs for Italy 2019–2024
Five Star Movement MEPs
Politicians from Rome
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